Essays on Consortia

Introduction

Business restructuring refers to the process of reorganizing or reshuffling the ownership, management, the operational, legal, administrative, technical, and financial structure of a company. The restructuring may stem from the need to enhance the profitability, competitiveness, and placement of the organization in a particular industry. Restructuring usually takes place before the sale, merger, and acquisition of the business but there are several other motives of restructuring. Competitive advantage and financial gains are the two most prominent causes of restructuring apart from mergers and acquisitions. Organizations have to plan in the context of restructuring and devise a grand strategic plan ...

Briefing

Executive Summary This report highlights the vital issues faced by libraries involved in inducting finance in online services and assemblages. The execution in an initial instance to assist in improving the programmatic objectives of the Digital Library Federation (DLF), it is mandatory to take into consideration the digital library growth, achievements, requirements, and issues professed by experts that performed tasks at the DLF’s twenty-four member libraries. This report methodologically aimed to explore into the desk-based study that involved long-term documentation and technical reports; and extensive discussions at few twenty-seven sites for the senior management of library for ...

Following the new millennia, it is said that auctions became popular to both the government and the e-commerce world. An auction is the process of bidding over a certain product. Whoever has the highest or lowest bid will get it. Auctions are done to sell over licenses for operations of different products, for example mobile phones licenses and taxi medallions. This also goes to radio spectrum licenses. However, auctions can either come out good or bad. According to Klemperer (2002), designing a good auction is mainly based on “elementary economics”. Poorly designed auctions can lead to “fiascos”, since the revenues did ...

Business to business (B2B) exchange is a business scenario that involves different organizations exchanging important industry information, goods produced or services rendered with each other as a way of market and general business development. These transactions involve different parties and vary in terms of the details provided in the exchange as well as the agreements reached by the involved businesses. In this changing world of business and as a result of globalization, the internet is playing an important role in almost all operations in the business field. It affects the production of goods, sales methods as well as communication between various stakeholders ...

Land and sea polluted with petroleum-based synthetic and natural substances have led to the development of techniques using biological organisms for clean-up. The technique is called bioremediation. “Bio” refers to biology and “remediation” to clean-up. The types of microorganisms used are bacteria fungi and actinomycetes. Bacteria can be used for bioremediation under anaerobic or aerobic conditions. Actinomycetes are generally anaerobic and grow from spores forming filaments and branches. The applications and environment for optimum bioremediation varies depending on the pollutant and the biological organisms. Different combinations work better depending on the temperature, substrata and other environmental variables. The goal ...